UK general elections › 2015 › Brentwood and Ongar
Brentwood and Ongar — 2015
Eric Pickles (Conservative Party) was elected with 30,534 votes— 58.8% of 51,897 valid votes.
Result · single-seat
Marginal winner Winning candidate's share of valid votes. 58.8% Proportional quota 50.0% Below quota Winning candidate's share minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = below; positive = above. +8.8 pts Valid ballots Voters who cast a valid ballot in this constituency, from the published source. 51,897
| Rank | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share of votes Candidate votes ÷ valid votes in this constituency. Matches the share the returning officer publishes. | Below quota Elected candidate's share of valid votes minus the proportional quota (50% for a single-member seat). Negative = won the seat below the quota; positive = cleared it. | Elected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric Pickles | Conservative Party | 30,534 | 58.8% | +8.8 pts | Elected |
| 2 | Michael McGough | UK Independence Party | 8,724 | 16.8% | — | |
| 3 | Liam Preston | Labour Party | 6,492 | 12.5% | — | |
| 4 | David Kendall | Liberal Democrats | 4,577 | 8.8% | — | |
| 5 | Reza Hossain | Green Party | 1,397 | 2.7% | — | |
| 6 | Robin Tilbrook | English Democrats | 173 | 0.3% | — |
Source data: UK Parliament psephology database, retrieved
2026-05-19, generated
2026-05-19
(Open Parliament Licence v3.0). ETL version parliament-etl-psephology@1. Methodology: how these numbers are computed.